An history of the visual arts of Africa - sculpture, painting and architecture; textiles, pottery and other household objects; jewellery, ceremonial and religious dress and body art. The author examines the major influences on African culture and art over the centuries: the civilizations of Egypt and the Mediterranean coast, the spread of Islam, the Bantu migrations, the evolution of the tribal system, the arrival of the Europeans and Christianity and the development of trade within Africa and beyond. He then examines the earliest known art forms, the preshitoric rock art found in a number of regions and the artefacts of the ancient Nubian, Aksumite and Nok cultures, and goes on to consider the development of the visual arts in a number of individual regions ranging from the Sahara to the Cape, from Ethiopia and the Swahili coast in the east to the Niger Delta and Benin in the west.

A Short History of African Art

Arts & Photography

Gillon, Werner

History & Criticism

Penguin??Books

This book "is a guide for every enthusiast and amateur, collector and student of the mulitplicity and varitey of African art." The art of more than 150 tribes from all areas of Africa is documented and shown in over 200 photographs.

Collecting African art

Studio Vista

Literature & Fiction

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Surveys the art produced in each region of Africa, including pottery, textiles, sculpture, jewelry, ceremonial clothing, and body art, and discusses the major influences on African art

Photographs and descriptions of African sculpture and artifacts are supplemented by information on tribes and their characteristic art styles

Collecting African Art

Forman, Werner

Furman, Jo

Elisofon, Eliot

Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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